Significant Internet Outage Affects Many Websites and Applications

An extensive web failure has impacted many online platforms and applications globally, as users reporting problems connecting to the web after problems at Amazon’s online infrastructure system.

The impacted services comprise Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-operated services like its key e-commerce site and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted along with its branches Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of difficulties accessing the the tax authority online portal on the start of the week. Also in the UK, many Ring customers used social media to report their doorbells were not working.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on individual apps totaled the many thousands for every service.

The company stated that the issue started in the eastern region of the America at Amazon Web Services, a division that provides crucial online backbone for a host of businesses, who lease space on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest cloud computing platform.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “higher failure rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The widespread consequence appeared to affect apps globally, and the outage tracking website showing outages with the same sites in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks online failures, also reported a surge in outages on the start of the week, with many of them located in the Virginia area, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the outage originated.